Giant Killer Robots: Heavy Hitters

Welcome to the world of Giant Killer Robots, a post-apocalyptic dystopia in the year 2117, where major cities have been abandoned in lieu of massive mega-cities. Society is heavily advertised to by mega corporations that vie for power over what remains of the world. In the remains of the cities of old, many raw materials lie in wait to be salvaged. But who has the rights to said salvage? To settle salvaging rights, and to make a massive entertainment spectacle of the affair, enter the league of Giant Killer Robots. Corporations send their sponsored pilots forward into the wrecks of lost cities in their company-produced giant robots, Heavy Hitters, to fight in all-out combat against one another, and they'll do whatever it takes to win.

Giant Killer Robots: Heavy Hitters is a 2-4 player mecha combat board game with a currently running Kickstarter campaign. The objective of the game is to either destroy the opposing players' Heavy Hitters, or claim four buildings on the map with your company's logo in order to win. How you go about this, however, varies greatly depending on what pilot you choose and what faction's Heavy Hitter they are piloting.

Your pilots can be choosen independently of what appears to be their faction affiliation, each with their own special abilities that they bring to the table. Currently there are four listed here that come with the core box set, but at least four more can be unlocked to be released as stretch goals via Kickstarter.

Following your choice of pilot comes the faction, or Heavy Hitter, you're going to choose to have them fight for. Each faction's machine has their own unique differences from one another, alongside various faction-related sponsorship bonuses. A simple example would be that Thunder Happy's Heavy Hitter has the unique ability to engage a target at close range with paint ammunition to both attack an opponent and tag an adjacent building for his sponsor.
You'll notice each Heavy Hitter comes with three smaller robots, these are support units that serve as a scout, mechanic, and combat support respectively.

The core mechanics of the game revolve around moving your Heavy Hitter and deployed drones around a game map to engage your opponents, your attacks and special actions being made available via drawing a hand from a corporation-specific deck. Your actions cost energy that regenerates at the start of a turn, and your HP is determined by how many cards you have left in your deck.

Beware that you can utilize more energy than alloted with your actions, effectively overclocking your reactor and taking damage to possibly finish your foe in a single action. However this can leave you vulnerable should your attack fail.

Thus far the team at Weta Workshop making this game has attracted the attention of our very own @MisterSavage for their work, shipping out test prototype copies of the game to review before even setting up their Kickstarter campaign. Thus far they've gotten positive feedback from both the reviewers and the community alike.

At this point the Kickstarter campaign has alreay been funded and all that remains is stretch goals, such as new pilots, more cards to build your Heavy Hitter decks with, or additional terrain to populate the board with. If you're a miniatures fan you can get unpainted figures that are relatively large (compared to Warhammer 40k) to custom paint yourself of both the pilots and the Heavy Hitters.

In short, an awesome board game is coming out that revolves around a profit-driven giant robot combat sport in a new and fun setting made by a company that previously has done special effects for big-name films. If you're interested in the game, find yourself liking the setting it takes place in, or just love giant robots it may be worth it to pick up this game and get your hands on exclusive game pieces to enjoy with your friends or family.
Link to Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wetaworkshop/gkr-heavy-hitters
Link to GKR: Heavy Hitters website: http://gkrgame.com/
Link to Adam Savage visiting Weta Workshop: https://youtu.be/z9So2VzcflY